Occupational and environmental lead exposure to adolescent workers in battery recycling workshops

Toxicology and Industrial Health

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1288-1295

  Kazi, Tasneem Gul ^a   Shah, Faheem ^a   Afridi, Hassan Imran ^a   Naeemullah, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SINDH   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

adolescent; battery recycling workshop; exposed boys; Lead; scalp hair; worker boys

Indexed keywords

ACID; LEAD;

ACID DIGESTION METHOD; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MICROWAVE OVEN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATION; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RECYCLING; SCALP HAIR; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAIR; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD; METABOLISM; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAKISTAN; RISK; SCALP;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ANALYTIC SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAIR; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; LEAD POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM, CHILDHOOD; MALE; MICROWAVES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; RECYCLING; RISK; SCALP; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 84948668988     PISSN: 07482337     EISSN: 14770393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748233713485883     Document Type: Article

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